OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to assess whether there was any relation between age, gender and body mass index (BMI) and nodal forms and vascular type in healthy Turkish adults. STUDY DESIGN Three neck areas in 25 wholesome patients who were aged from 21 to 58 years, were assessed by gray-scale and color doppler ultrasonography. Ultrasonographic examinations were performed using an ALOK...

UNLABELLED The presence of lymph node metastases in esophageal cancer is one of the most principle prognostic indicators. The aim of the study was the assessment of cervical and abdominal lymph nodes (N/pN) by ultrasound (US) examination in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the thoracic esophagus referred to esophagectomy. MATERIAL AND METHODS The analyzed study population consisted of...

Introduction. Thyroid cancer is one of the most common malignant neoplasms endocrine system. well-differentiated thyroid constitutes about 90 % all tumors gland. Despite growing morbidity and high incidence this pathology, in case timely diagnosis treatment has favorable prognosis. Aim. using clinical examples, to demonstrate possibility thyroglobulin measurement needle washouts fineneedle aspi...

Cervical cancer ranks as the second most frequent cancer in women in the world, and nodal metastasis seems to be the first step of tumor spread in most cases. Since lymph node involvement is a major prognostic factor in cervical carcinoma, lymphatic spread of cervical cancer has been one of the most studied surgical topics in gynecologic oncology. Traditionally, lymph nodes stations have been a...

AIM The aim of this report is to present a case of multiple calcified tuberculous lymph nodes found in a panoramic radiograph including a discussion of the differential diagnosis of this lesion from other soft tissue calcifications. BACKGROUND Concomitant massive submandibular and cervical tuberculosis lymph node calcifications are relatively uncommon lesions and may be encountered on routine...

Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies in the world. The most important prognostic factor in this cancer is the stage of the tumor. Detection of lymph nodes with or without malignancy is essential for determining the stage of the tumor and setting a therapeutic plan. There are different methods for isolating lymph nodes in surgical specimens of breast cancer in the pathology ...

Received 2/20/2002; accepted 2/27/2002. For correspondence or reprints contact: Shih-Ya Ma, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 5 Fu-Hsing Street, Kueishan, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan. Tel: (886)3-3281200 ext. 2624, Fax: (886)3-3281320, E-mail: [email protected] We reported a 72-year-old male patient of malignant parotid squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) with right cer...

BACKGROUND Lateral cervical lymph node metastasis without central lymph node (CLN) metastasis is not infrequent in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). This study was designed to investigate the frequency and pattern of skip metastasis in PTC. METHODS We reviewed 131 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy with CLN dissection and selective lymph node dissection. Tumor location was classified in...

Radiotherapy remains the important therapeutic strategy for patients with esophageal cancer (EC). At present, there is no uniform opinion or standard care on the range of radiotherapy in the treatment of EC patients. This study aimed to investigate the risk factors associated with lower cervical lymph node metastasis (LNM) and to explore the distribution pattern of lower cervical metastatic lym...

A 15 year-old-male presented with concurrent sinonasal polyposis and anterior uveitis with cervical lymph node enlargement. Cervical lymph node biopsy confirmed Rosai-Dorfman disease. Though patient's eye symptoms did not respond well to topical corticosteroid treatment but he showed a remarkable regression in the size of nasal polyps and cervical lymph nodes after systemic corticosteroids. Int...